Hollis, more than any other member of the unit, is proving there may well be no limits to what the human mind can achieve.

Appearances: Touching Evil, Sense of Evil, Blood Dreams, Blood Sins, Blood Ties, Haven, Hostage, Haunted, Wait for Dark, Hold Back the Dark, Curse of Salem

DIANA HAYES—FBI SPECIAL CRIMES UNIT

Medium height and slender but athletic, she has the coppery hair and fair skin of a true redhead. Not beautiful, her vivid green eyes and slow smile make her more than attractive.

Job: Special Agent, profiler.

Adept: Medium, the only one in the unit able to open a door to something she calls “the gray time,” which she believes is a sort of corridor between the living world and the spirit realm. It’s a cold, gray, desolate place or time without either light or shadow, a place where Diana usually meets “spirit guides” who often appear as children even though they aren’t, and who are somewhat cryptic in explaining what Diana is called there to learn or do. Diana is also able to see and communicate with spirits in the living world, though she seldom sees the recently dead.

Appearances: Chill of Fear, Blood Ties, Curse of Salem

DANIEL—APPEARING AS A CHILD, DIANA’S SPIRIT GUIDE. BUT WHAT IS HE REALLY?

REESE DEMARCO—FBI SPECIAL CRIMES UNIT

Tall, powerful, blond hair, and light blue eyes. Originally one of the former military “civilian” operatives for Bishop, Reese has specialized in the past in deep-cover assignments, some long-term, until he came formally into the SCU as an agent and was partnered with Hollis.

Job: Special Agent, profiler. Also a pilot and a military-trained sniper.

Adept: An “open” born telepath, he is able to read a wide range of people. He possesses a unique double shield, which sometimes contains the unusually high amount of sheer energy he naturally produces, a shield he can enclose Hollis within when necessary for her safety. He also possesses something Bishop has dubbed a “primal ability”: He always knows when a gun is pointed at or near him, or if other imminent danger threatens. At least twice, that primal ability has saved the life of his partner.

Appearances: Blood Sins, Blood Ties, Haven, Hostage, Haunted, Wait for Dark, Hold Back the Dark, Curse of Salem

QUENTIN HAYES—FBI SPECIAL CRIMES UNIT

Tall, shaggy blond hair, and blue eyes. One of the earliest psychics recruited by Bishop, and already an FBI agent at the time, Quentin had a well-deserved reputation as something of a loner with a reckless, impatient nature, traits that have changed at least somewhat during his years with the SCU. Still tends toward humor, often of the flippant or gallows variety.

Job: Special Agent, profiler.

Adept: Quentin is a seer, precognitive, although for most of his life he never “saw” the future, just sometimes knew something would happen before it did. Meeting Diana Brisco and struggling to help the then-fragile psychic as well as solve a decades-old mystery in his own life, he begins to have actual visions, though they are still rare and extremely unsettling. He’s one of the best at using the “spider senses” developed by first Bishop and then many in the SCU, able to enhance the usual five senses to an extraordinary degree.